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Ivana Stojiljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Стојиљковић; born 1981) is a Serbian politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a representative of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Stojiljković was born in Pula, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She moved to Užice, Serbia, as a child and was raised in the community. She earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Belgrade and has subsequently been a leading engineer and urbanist with Užice's construction directorate. In 2010, she became president of the Environmental Protection Council and the Zlatibor District Urban Planning Council.

Stojiljković has also worked as a journalist in the local media and is a member of the Serbian branch of Mensa International.[1]

Political career

Stojiljković joined the Progressive Party in 2010. In 2013, she was appointed to leadership positions in the party in Užice and the Zlatibor District.[2]

She was thirty-ninth on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] She was twenty-first on the Aleksandar Vučić — Serbia is winning list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[4]

Stojiljković is currently the chair of the assembly's environmental protection committee; a member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee; and the deputy chair of a commission set up to "Investigate the Consequences of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1999 Bombing on the Health of the Citizens of Serbia, as well as the Environment, with a Special Focus on the Impact of the Depleted Uranium Projectiles."[5]

She is the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with India and a member of parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain and the United States of America.[6]

In March 2018, Stojiljković thanked India's ambassador to Serbia for what she described as "India's principled stand on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia."[7]

References

  1. ^ IVANA STOJILJKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 June 2018.
  2. ^ IVANA STOJILJKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 June 2018.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  4. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Laketić: Prva lokacija opština Vranje, ići ćemo i na KiM", Politika, 23 May 2018, accessed 28 June 2018.
  6. ^ IVANA STOJILjKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Ambassador meets with Members of Parliamentary Friendship Group with India", Embassy of India (Belgrade), press release, 28 March 2018.